What A Testing Of Character Adversity Is.

It Is Not Marriage That Fails; It Is People That Fail. All That Marriage Does Is To Show People Up.

Democracy Is Based Upon The Conviction That There Are Extraordinary Possibilities In Ordinary People.

We Ask The Leaf, "are You Complete In Yourself?" And The Leaf Answers, "no, My Life Is In The Branches." We Ask The Branch, And The Branch Answers, "no My Life Is In The Root." We Ask The Root, And It Answers, "no My Life Is In The Trunk And The Branches And The Leaves. Keep The Branches Stripped Of Leaves, And I Shall Die," So It Is With The Great Tree Of Being. Nothing Is Completely And Merely Individual.

It Is Magnificent To Grow Old, If One Keeps Young.

I Renounce War For Its Consequences, For The Lies It Lives On And Propagates, For The Undying Hatred It Arouses, For The Dictatorships It Puts In Place Of Democracy, For The Starvation That Stalks After It. I Renounce War, And Never Again, Directly Or Indirectly, Will I Sanction Or Support Another.